The adventures of Cang, evil elven female mage (storyline spoilers)

[dplax]

Description:

Since her parents were killed while she was still young she got to live with adoptive parents. However they were not nice to her and her adoptive father beat her regularly. At the age of 18 she poisoned her adoptive parents and went to the Neverwinter Academy to learn the arts of magic so as to be able to defend herself.

Stats:
STR: 10
DEX: 12
CON: 12
INT: 18
WIS: 10
CHA: 10

Most of the teachers at the academy had been boring except for the magic training of course. Cang was happy with the staff she had gotten after completing her training. Illimited use sounded really good to her. The spell was a bit weak, but she was going to be able to cast better spells later on anyway. Then the time of the ceremony was getting close. The great Aribeth (so some said) was going to be present herself.

But then during the ceremony a disgusting thing happened: some mages attacked them and Cang did not manage to get the opportunity to be praised. Furious with these attackers she started using her new staff against them. Then seeing that her co-students had also joined the battle she saw the perfect opportunity to get rid of them and let them fight alone. Then when all of them were dead she let Aribeth weaken the mages and then she fired the killing shot at them.

After the battle was over Aribeth asked her to find some creatures. At first Cang did not want to accept but then Aribeth started talking about some reward and she felt compelled to accept. She left the room and then met the mage for the first time. She started firing away at him with her staff, but then he disappeared after leaving her to fight a few goblins. After about half an hour the whole of the zone was cleared out and Cang found that she was the only survivor in this part of the academy. All of the tutors had been killed. And it was them who had tried to teach her. She did feel a certain desire to let the creatures in the cages go free, but then realised that she wasn't powerful enough to overcome them. Yet. She vowed to try and come back later. As she ventured on she met the guy who had tried to explain some extremely trivial stuff to her earlier that morning. And now he wanted to come with her? Cang disgustedly did not accept, deciding to let the weak human fight for himself.

The skeletons and the goblins did not pose any serious problems to her staff. She met some old man who seemed to cast a spell on her because afterwards she felt much stronger and was able to summon a familiar. She felt that dragons were cool so she chose a pseudo dragon. Too late she realised that the dragon was of good alignment. She vowed that as soon as she got the chance she would get rid of him and get something evil, like that mini beholder she had read about. She finally reached the stables where the four creatures could be found, but the stupid beasts not realising that now that she had arrived the danger was past fled. Cang and Armag, the pseudodragon easily took care of the goblins then got insulted for doing so by some stupid cleric. This guaranteed him a place on Cang's blacklist. A list whose purpose was that Cang remembered who she wanted to kill. She did not want to accept the mission Fenthick and Aribeth wanted to give to him, but then she had to as they threatened to send the whole of the guard after her. This made her annoyed with the guards so when she stepped out of the temple she killed all the guards in sight, although she did suffer some minor wounds and that stupid dragon of hers died in the process.

However Aribeth not knowing what vile task Cang had just performed healed her fully. Cang thought about getting a companion for herself, but after seeing the weaklings which the town had to propose she decided against it. After wandering a bit around the town center she agreed to free some animals from a zoo and to steal some art. One of the places where she had to steal the art from was in the docks so she decided to head that way. She was just about to open the gate leading there when the guard who was there stopped her. Annoyed by this she killed him, using her staff and some magic missiles and then killed those who had seen her do so.

She proceeded to the thief infested docks.

to be continued....

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The docks was a filthy place full of thieves and those stupid town guards Cang thought to herself while sipping some wine in a tavern. She had even had to bring the wine with herself as they did not have any here. The events of the last few hours flashed before her eyes. She had tried to get into this same tavern but was told by a now dead beggar that she needed to either pay or get a uniform. Cang decided that getting the uniform was a better solution and went to see the pirates on their boat. Unfortunately they did not want to give her a uniform so she had to take it from their dead bodies. After killing them she was asked by a bloke named Masterson to get his amulet back. She decided to get the amulet, but she did not yet know whether she was going to give it back. Depended on what properties the amulet had. Then before heading into the tavern, where she had learned from several papers carried by thieves that some remedy was going to be sold, she decided to take care of Androd first. His guards had been competent, but they did not seem to know the real danger. They always attacked Armag while she blasted away at them with spells from a distance.

Finally after killing a lot of guards she reached Androd himself. He begged her not to kill him but unluckily for him Cang had never liked nobility and prefered to steal everything from Androd's house and was afraid he might recognize her later. After killing Androd, getting the statuette and stealing everything possible from the mansion Cang made her way to the tavern next door.

She was let in thanks to the uniform. Inside she spotted some of the pirates whose comrades she had just killed and decided to sneak upstairs to change before speaking to them. Upstairs after taking a few gold pieces from the rooms and changing she met a strange guy in a sauna who told her the password to the lower level of the tavern.

In order to get the key Cang wanted to beat the officer of the pirates in a drinking contest but unfortunately she did not support alcohol too well and lost. To heal her ego she used ten pieces of the thieves money to buy herself a cloak.

After killing the cook for being unpolite to her she proceeded to the lower level. Several pirates tried to stop her, but apart from Armag dying a few times she rescued the pirate leaders lover quite easily. Making her believe that she wanted to help wasn't hard and she managed to find out where she needed to go. The scarabs in the house and in the sewers were annoying but apart from being covered in the acid blow of one of them Cang escaped without a scratch. She had always been bad with names so when she had to choose which of the pirate leaders she needed to kill, she was at a loss. From a distance while they still could not see her she possessed Armag and sent him closer and then started firing away spells at the first group. She needed to return to the temple and rest twice to be able to resummon Armag, but in the end the opposition did die. However they did not have anything which resembled to one of the creatures she had been looking for. So from the other side of the bars she fired away several spells at the other group of pirates and then took their possessions also. And then finally she was able to get rid of Armag, and instead she was now able to summon Eara, whom she called a beholder even though he was not one.

Then she found the cockatrice feather and took that back to Aribeth and the statue to Ophala. Both were happy and rewarded her. With her newfound money she bought herself haste and fire arrow and set off to another of the town's sectors.

[ 10-10-2004, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: dplax ]

[shamrock_uk]

Wonderful DPlax, I love reading these stories! I always find it particularly interesting how people interact when roleplaying an evil character - it's something that I've never been able to do satisfactorily. Keep them coming [img]smile.gif[/img]

[dplax]

Ah, at last someone shows interest in me writing this story. As soon as I get farther I shall post an update, but I shall still have to play some more. I have only gotten to where I have written so far. I was actually quite surprised at how tough some of the town guards were in the city centre. So far these were the hardest battles.

[ 10-13-2004, 01:30 AM: Message edited by: dplax ]

[dplax]

Played a lot so here is a longish update:

After giving the cockatrice feather to Aribeth Cang had a look at some of the wares of the paladin. She saw a few interesting items but did not have enough money. She decided to head to the district of the nobles and "ask" them for some. In this spirit she recruited the thief who had seemed to be waiting for this in the temple.

She had expected riches to be awaiting her beyond the gate but instead she was faced with a no-man's land. The only excitement provided there was some sort of ogre who while distracted by Erea and Tomi got pounded by spells and died. The recompensation the man gave her was not enough and she tried killing him but none of her spells worked against him and neither Tomi nor Erea managed to touch him (OOC: it wasn't easy to shake him either. stupid immortal... ). After finally managing to shake him she got into even greater trouble. Four enemies just teleported near her. She was nearly killed but managed to run away and while the four attackers were busy with Erea and Tomi she blasted away at them with spells. On the corpse of one of them an interesting note was found. She put it away for further use and proceeded to Blacklake. The district had much more order in it than the rest of the town. But smiling to herself she saw that evil could also be found here. A female named Formosa asked her to take care of a certain mage named Meldanen. She proceeded in the direction of his residence but was distracted after she noticed the houses of those Ophala had told her to target. She stole both objects and killed Rumsbottom. The arrogant noble thought that he was going to live long enough to identify her. Then she had a stroke of luck. She encountered a wizened old woman called Milly whom she threatened into telling her the secret entrance into Meldanen's home. Once inside the mage's mansion Cang went from chamber to chamber looting everything. Meldanen's apprentice could not stop her and after killing him Cang felt suddenly stronger. Although Erea was evil she felt that he had not served her well enough and instead took on Nimat a stealthy panther. She guessed that he would work well together with Tomi. Sure enough the rest of the mansion was completed easily except for Meldanen himself. The mage had quite a few powerful spells up his sleeve and Cang was near death several times in the battle. Without the stone given to her by Aribeth she would have surely died. But in the end thanks mostly to Niamat and the summoned boar Meldanen was subdued and parleyed with her. For the first time in her life Cang was impressed by an opponent and actually let Meldanen continue his pathetic life. Although she did get his key and silver tooth from him. Cang left Meldanen's mansion and collected her reward from Formosa and then went to the tavern for which she had bought a token to be able to fight. The combats went easily and she found herself the proprietor of the tavern.

Then Cang remembered that she had forgotten to talk to the nymph in Meldanen's mansion. This time she entered by the front gate after having killed the guards and after a long walk got a lock of the nymph's hair. She used her stone to get back to Aribeth and gave her the nymph hair and showed Fenthick the not she had found. Desther was quite annoying and Cang decided that if she got the opportunity she would kill him.

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Cang then went out into the city center and accepted to free the animals from the zoo and asked to be able to be admitted to the mage guild. Then off she was again to Blacklake. The zoo did not pose a serious challenge as all fell before her panther and Tomi. She needed to help them with the zoo's leader but even he died easily. The animals freed Cang went and collected the item from the mage laboratory and then did the same in the docks. She used her stone of recall and collected her reward from the druid and then did the same with Ophala, who although not quite pleased with the death of two nobles did reward her. With her new-found wealth Cang bought a ring of protection and a minor amulet of the master from Aribeth. Then she purchased a few scrolls from Eltoura. Armed with her new items and spells she entered the peninsula.

Despite the masses of roaming prisoners she did not encounter any difficulties as her familiar and Tomi seemed to be able to take care of everything alone. The mage laboratory was visited here too and then she headed into the prison. There after gaining some experience she was at last able to learn some scrolls she had been carrying around for ages. Monster summoning 4, stoneskin and fireball were added to her repertoire and using these she easily reached the entrance to where the leader of the prison was. The fighter he left there fell incredibly fast to her familiar, Tomi and the summoned spider. Agains the mindflayer she did not even have to use spells as her minions took care of him alone. Gathering its brain she headed back towards the city center and then met another group of mysterious attackers, who again had an anonymous note with them. She went back to see Aribeth and Fenthick and then headed off to the last unvisited district of Neverwinter.

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After killing heaps of undead who posed no serious threat to her minions and fireballs. She found the body of some mage who had been to weak to stand up to the hordes of undead and gave his brother the journal but kept the staff. Gulnan had been quite resistant to her spells and had had a lot of minions but being able to cast three fireballs here did help her a lot. Gulnan's heart in her backpack Cang wanted to go back and visit the academy but wasn't able to get inside the gates. Furious she slaughtered quite some of the people in the tavern in Beggar's nest. Her bloodlust satisfied she headed back to the city center and went to see Eltoura. The minogon she had to face was the toughest enemy so far and she needed to use all of her spells to defeat it. Tomi, Niamat and the summoned spider died in this battle.

She went back to see Aribeth and gave her the last ingredient. When asked whether she was ready to participate in the making of the ingredient she said no since she still had to find some tomb, or so Oleff had told her. And besides now that the menace of the illness was nearly gone the town was going to need less guards... She could help select the ones who were to die.

[dplax]

OOC: I was quite surprised at how easy Chapter 1 was with the three minions getting up close and me just casting spells from a distance. Apart from Meldanen and the Minogon nothing posed a serious problem. We'll see how Desther goes in the next update.

[Bozos of Bones]

The story is good(evil actually) so far, but I missed something. Erea is the quasibeholder, Tomi is the thief and who is the third minion? Armag? He's dead so...

[dplax]

The third minion is a summonling. Earlier made with monster summoning II and later with IV. And the familiars were: first pseudo dragon, second Erea the beholder and now Niamat the panther.

[ 10-16-2004, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: dplax ]